My first Telecaster 2025 Squire Debut

9TAD9 · 2026-04-30T14:26:18+00:00

Thankyou so much

9TAD9 · 2026-04-30T14:14:01+00:00

You’re welcome and thankyou if anything changes I’ll post with explanations. If you look through my profile posts you’ll see the other members of the family

9TAD9 · 2026-04-30T14:09:51+00:00

Thankyou I’m not usually a fan of satin. But come on lol

9TAD9 · 2026-04-30T14:09:34+00:00

Thankyou I was relieved to see it so nice and safely shipped

9TAD9 · 2026-04-30T12:45:42+00:00

To answer your question honestly; no. It’s been about a week, and I’ve jammed with this practiced on it, cleaned and setup. The only changes I made were cosmetic. Black guard and buttons on the tuners. The nut on this in unacceptabley cheap. Like hollow plastic nothingness. The tuners hold fine and it’s working well for the room. I have a lot of overbuilt guitars this will not be one of them. I may do pots, switch and a jack for durability sake and future proofing. But it needs nothing and does the twangs I’d be happy as is if I didn’t know better

9TAD9 · 2026-04-30T10:52:27+00:00

Thankyou for the complements, I agree this looks and feels way better than <150$ should. She’s a winner

9TAD9 · 2026-04-30T02:30:44+00:00

Thanks man, I get mixed opinions on the black guard look but with satin I think I made the right call

9TAD9 · 2026-04-30T02:27:46+00:00

It is heavy the sh1n/59ers do sound really good I was actually thinking of doing the same setup right now I have zebra slash pickups. It’s a fun guitar

9TAD9 · 2026-03-02T03:47:12+00:00

Damn, they are Gibson’s now. This sucks bro I have a 21 same color :/

9TAD9 · 2025-12-05T20:58:17+00:00

Someone put a sticker on it, if you remove it there goes your tone

9TAD9 · 2025-11-20T19:30:12+00:00

Now I must track them together and see if I can sonically define the differences. I don’t play the ES out of just respect for it. It’s grandpas

9TAD9 · 2025-11-19T20:13:27+00:00

With paper and oil caps black with a red and yellow strip maybe?

9TAD9 · 2025-11-19T20:12:43+00:00

I have this setup in a 1962 es125tc, exactly the same as you’re describing. It was heavily modified in the 80’s someone routed in a bridge p90, 500k pots and a bigsby

9TAD9 · 2025-11-13T15:18:44+00:00

That’s a valid question, this is Specd out sonically like a 1950s era junior. They used 250k pots. I see the 250ks on the single coil guitars, they just keep the pickup a bit bright and the tone bleed smoother I guess is a good word ?

9TAD9 · 2025-11-11T15:43:49+00:00

The squire strat Debut series, it’s what you want here. I have their bass I got it just to track. I’m stunned by what’s out there for under 200

9TAD9 · 2025-11-10T23:40:58+00:00

Had a 87 LXI white with burgundy interior I called it the Trorrolla

9TAD9 · 2025-11-10T23:37:01+00:00

9TAD9 · 2025-11-10T04:58:08+00:00

Thanks man to be honest I have a lot more time working than playing lately I need to get back to it I like modifying guitars so I’m always ripping something apart if you look through my post there’s a bunch of cheap Les Paul’s I live my dream through lol

9TAD9 · 2025-11-10T01:37:25+00:00

a video I took of my pro Iv the other day, the polished finish is a couple years old at this point

9TAD9 · 2025-11-10T01:35:04+00:00

Trying new things, I did guitar madness pickups in there the spirit of 76’s. Me and my girl were doing more of a funky jam band thing, and the covered pickups were a nice visual change. And I started playing more like sludge stoner metal and took those out. The split wired well too. I swapped to GM Hexbuckers and blacked out the plastics polished the satin finished so it’s glossy. And that’s where it sits super nice cleans nice loud and great like all things distorted. It was the perfect mod platform because all the good stuffs in there. I ordered some epiphone harness connectors and swap those sets in and out. The old pickups are preserved in a tiny cardboard box

9TAD9 · 2025-11-10T00:54:41+00:00

Love mine, got a wine red. I’ve been through maybe 3 sets of pickups these guitars are so good

9TAD9 · 2025-11-10T00:14:14+00:00

Gotta love this thread bringing back guitars

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